The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Top eight most common reactions to your grain-free diet and how to respond.

As I'm sure you've seen, eyes raise and questions arise when you order a burger wrapped in

lettuce or discard a wrap and eat the contents, and then when you answer with, oh, I don't

eat grains, minds boggle and mouths gape as they stumble to

grasp the notion of someone who doesn't eat bread or pasta. Eventually, though, they fire off

responses, challenges, questions, and proclamations. This isn't right. This isn't possible. This doesn't agree with their

idea of how people should eat. It just isn't normal. You're not normal. And you should be ashamed

of yourself for introducing a new paradigm. But not all are personally offended by your decision. Some are honestly curious and flabbergasted.

Some just want to know why someone would give up grains and how they would get along without them.

So, what kind of stuff do we hear out there in the wild?

Rather than just sending you to yet another Mark's Daily Apple Post,

maybe on why grains are unhealthy or how to give them up, let's take a look at the eight most

popular and prevalent questions and then try to come up with some good responses to them. I'll give you

both longer ones and succincter ones that

you can fire off in an elevator. Oh, it's that low-carb thing? While grains represent an easy, cheap

source of carbohydrates that most sedentary people simply don't need, they also contain antinutrients, proteins and lectins,

and other nutritional factors that impair digestion, perforate the intestinal lining,

increase inflammation, and can even exacerbate or possibly induce autoimmune diseases.

Since the purpose of life is to reproduce and that grain has to make it into the ground to germinate and turn into a plant, grains don't want to be eaten. And they use the anti-nutrients to dissuade consumption in lieu of the running, climbing, flying, crawling, biting, and stinging

that animals use to survive.

Response?

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